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Stories from everyday people confronting violence without the police. StoriesForPower Podcast 🎧 & STOP Story Archive 🎙️

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Why am I squeezing in a conference before I go on medical leave? Because it's my favorite conference of the year. These are the people I want to be with when so many things are going wrong. For those of you who aren't at @socialismconference.org, here are some remarks I shared today.
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Some Thoughts on Techno-Fascism From Socialism 2025
"This is the endgame of our isolation."
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Jonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Oh dear, I forgot to keep the link in there after the excerpt was too long. Of course it’s from this most recent @storiesforpower.bsky.social episode: www.creative-interventions.org/sfp/abolitio...
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Abolition Feminisms
Deana Lewis chats with Beth Richie and Alisa Bierria about the historical context and motivations behind their influential books that have been informed by and inform abolition feminism.
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Jonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
This part of the lineage of abolition where I’ve found my own homes — deeply informed by abolition feminism, I would say — has always been one of the treasures for me. Something to hold onto that’s moving toward freedom.
“And it also allows for the really slow world building work that it promises it will deliver. And so I think the both and part of abolition feminism really comes from the way that it’s alive and it’s living and it’s experimental and it changes over time, but it gives us something to kind of wrap ourselves in or hold onto as something that’s moving in a direction toward freedom. I think if you [00:27:00] try to do abolition without feminism, or if you are a feminist and don’t understand what abolition is required of you, then I think you miss that long arc that you described.”
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StoryTelling and Organizing Project (STOP) @storiesforpower.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
🐚Ep011: Abolition Feminisms 🎙️Meet our guest Beth Richie: Beth E. Richie is a Distinguished Professor of Criminology, Law and Justice and Black Studies at The University of Illinois at Chicago.
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Jonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Still catching up a bit. What a wonderful episode. I didn’t know I’d learn so much Minneapolis history! And it is always a treasure to hear Andrea Ritchie stories. ❤️
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StoryTelling and Organizing Project (STOP) @storiesforpower.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
🐚 Stories for Power Episode 011 🎙️Meet our guest Alisa Bierria: Alisa has been an advocate and organizer within the feminist anti-violence movement for over 25 years.
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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
And that number is likely higher. ICE and CBP lack the records and have such flawed systems/procedures (or, one could argue that it isn’t flawed but actually operating as intended) that they don’t even know where to track or find people they’ve abducted, let alone how many they’ve deported in error.
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StoryTelling and Organizing Project (STOP) @storiesforpower.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
📢 Ep 011: Abolition Feminisms In our final episode, Beth Richie & Alisa Bierria reflect on their shared grounding in faith as necessary to remain steady along the ever-changing pathway to liberation. They remind us the importance of intentional community building, friendships, family, & joy.
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Abolition Feminisms
Deana Lewis chats with Beth Richie and Alisa Bierria about the historical context and motivations behind their influential books that have been informed by and inform abolition feminism.
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StoryTelling and Organizing Project (STOP) @storiesforpower.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
🐚EP 010 🎙️This episode we welcome back our producer and this episode’s guest, Mimi Kim: Mimi is a second generation Korean American, a daughter of immigrants from a country still divided. S
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StoryTelling and Organizing Project (STOP) @storiesforpower.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
🐚 Ep 010: Radical Roots 🎙️Meet our guest Kalei Kanuha: Valli Kalei Kanuha, born and raised in Hilo, Hawaiʻi in the 1950s is the daughter of a Kanaka ʻŌiwi father and Nisei mother. Dr. Kanuha considers herself an Indigenous, critical feminist, activist-practitioner-scholar.
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StoryTelling and Organizing Project (STOP) @storiesforpower.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Meet our EP010 guest @dreanyc123.bsky.social: Andrea (she/her) is a Black lesbian immigrant survivor who has been documenting, organizing, advocating, litigating &agitating around policing & criminalization of Black women, girls, trans, & gender nonconforming people for the past three decades.
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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Tune in to this episode to hear from our co-founder @dreanyc123.bsky.social, alongside Valli Kalei Kanuha and Mimi Kim, as they weave a long view of the abolitionist feminist movement, one that crosses generations and geographic expanses, and multiple, intersecting movements.
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StoryTelling and Organizing Project (STOP) @storiesforpower.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
📢Let’s talk Radical Roots, Tune into Ep 010 What a privilege it is that we get to hear from some of the OG’s of this work! This week, host Deana Lewis talks with Valli Kalei Kanuha, Mimi Kim, and Andrea Ritchie, whose entry into the feminist of color movement spans the 1970’s, 1980’s and 1990’s.
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Radical Roots
Deana Lewis talks with Valli Kalei Kanuha, Mimi Kim and Andrea Ritchie, whose entry into the feminist of color movement spans the 1970’s, 1980’s and 1990’s. Together, they weave a long view of the…
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StoryTelling and Organizing Project (STOP) @storiesforpower.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
🐚 EP 009: Chicago 🎙️Welcome back our producer and this episode’s guest, Shira Hassan: Shira Hassan has trained and spoken nationally on the sex trade, harm reduction, self-injury, healing justice and transformative justice.
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StoryTelling and Organizing Project (STOP) @storiesforpower.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
🐚 EP 009 🎙️Meet our guest Erica Meiners: Writer, educator, & organizer, Erica R. Meiners’ current work includes a co-edited anthology The Long Term: Resisting Life Sentences, Working Towards Freedom (2018)…
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Dean Spade @deanspade.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
In Episode 1 of my new podcast, Love in a F*cked Up World, I talk to adrienne maree brown about jealousy, possessiveness, conflict in organizing groups, anarchism, and more. Find it on Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts. open.spotify.com/episode/4dPp...
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Introducing: Love in a F*cked Up World with Dean Spade
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StoryTelling and Organizing Project (STOP) @storiesforpower.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
🐚 EP009: Chicago 🎙️Meet our guest Mariame Kaba: @prisonculture.bsky.social is an organizer, educator, librarian/archivist, curator, zinemaker & prison industrial complex (PIC) abolitionist who is active in movements for racial, gender, and transformative justice.
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Jonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Very excited for this newest @storiesforpower.bsky.social episode about the formative work done in Chicago from the early 2000s through the 2010s. www.creative-interventions.org/sfp/chicago/
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Chicago Transformative Justice
Deana Lewis talks with Mariame Kaba, Erica Meiners, and Shira Hassan – three abolitionist feminists who discuss the work they created and built in Chicago from the early 2000’s through the early 2010’...
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StoryTelling and Organizing Project (STOP) @storiesforpower.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
📢Ep 009: Chicago is Here! In this episode, @prisonculture.bsky.social, Erica Meiners, & Shira Hassan, reflect on their organizing journeys in Chicago. They discuss how their relationships, solidarity, and partnership fed their ability to experiment, find joy in the grief, and build safer realities.
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Chicago Transformative Justice
Deana Lewis talks with Mariame Kaba, Erica Meiners, and Shira Hassan – three abolitionist feminists who discuss the work they created and built in Chicago from the early 2000’s through the early 2010’...
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StoryTelling and Organizing Project (STOP) @storiesforpower.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
🐚 EP 007: Philly! This episode takes us back to the East Coast to talk with Esteban Kelly and Jenna Peters-Golden about how the close knit queer and trans community impacted the larger activist world and supported the long term work to end sexual violence throughout the Philly and beyond.
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Philly Transformative Justice
Join our host Deana Lewis as she interviews Esteban Kelly and Jenna Peters-Golden who were core collective members of Philly Stands Up that worked to restore trust and justice within the Philadelphia…
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StoryTelling and Organizing Project (STOP) @storiesforpower.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
🐚EP 006-ATL 🎙️Meet our guest Mia Mingus: Mia Mingus is a writer, educator and trainer for transformative justice and disability justice. Mia founded and currently leads SOIL: A Transformative Justice Project which builds the conditions for transformative justice to grow and thrive.
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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Join us this coming Wednesday, May 28 at 11 AM ET for our next webinar on Transformative Justice Under Authoritarianism. We’ll be learning from organizers in India who are challenging criminalization and advancing TJ practices under their current conditions and contexts. Learn more and register:
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Transformative Justice Under Authoritarianism: Part 2 — Interrupting Criminalization
Join Interrupting Criminalization for the second installment of our Transformative Justice Under Authoritarianism series. This time, we’ll be learning from organizers and artists in India who are chal...
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StoryTelling and Organizing Project (STOP) @storiesforpower.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
🐚 Ep 006 - ATL 🎙️Meet our guest Cara Page: Cara is a Black Queer Feminist writer, cultural/memory worker, and organizer.
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StoryTelling and Organizing Project (STOP) @storiesforpower.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
🐚Ep 006: Atlanta 🌟 In this episode, our host Deana Lewis takes us to The South to chat with Cara Page and Mia Mingus. Together they discuss the work they did in Atlanta during the early to mid 2000’s and the building of the Atlanta Transformative Justice Collaborative.
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Atlanta
Deana Lewis chats with Cara Page and Mia Mingus about their work in Atlanta during the early to mid 2000’s. They discuss the building of the Atlanta Transformative Justice Collaborative whose critical...
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StoryTelling and Organizing Project (STOP) @storiesforpower.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
🐚Ep 006: Atlanta 🌟 In this episode, our host Deana Lewis takes us to The South to chat with Cara Page and Mia Mingus. Together they discuss the work they did in Atlanta during the early to mid 2000’s and the building of the Atlanta Transformative Justice Collaborative.
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Atlanta
Deana Lewis chats with Cara Page and Mia Mingus about their work in Atlanta during the early to mid 2000’s. They discuss the building of the Atlanta Transformative Justice Collaborative whose critical...
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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
This May edition goes over the latest executive orders that “unleash” the violence of policing, as well as the ongoing disappearings and detentions, and the criminalization journalists, trans youth, abortion, and more. As always, we include calls to action and relevant resources that we find useful⬇️
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StoryTelling and Organizing Project (STOP) @storiesforpower.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Are you ready for this week's episode? 🎧
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StoryTelling and Organizing Project (STOP) @storiesforpower.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
🐚EP 005-SF Bay Area 🎙️Welcome back our co-producer and this episode’s guest, Mimi Kim: Mimi is a second generation Korean American, a daughter of immigrants from a country still divided.
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StoryTelling and Organizing Project (STOP) @storiesforpower.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
🐚EP 005-SF Bay Area 🎙️Meet our guest Rachel Herzing: Rachel Herzing is an organizer, activist, and educator. Herzing’s work has spanned grassroots movements against imprisonment and policing, community and movement education, and philanthropy.
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StoryTelling and Organizing Project (STOP) @storiesforpower.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
🐚EP 005-SF Bay Area 🎙️Meet our guest Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha: @llps.bsky.social (they/them) is a nonbinary femme disabled writer, space creator and disability and transformative justice movement worker of Burgher and Tamil Sri Lankan, Irish and Galician/Roma ascent.
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StoryTelling and Organizing Project (STOP) @storiesforpower.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Last Week, Episode 005 took us to the San Francisco Bay Area! Our host Deana Lewis spoke with guests Rachel Herzing, @llps.bsky.social, & Mimi Kim as they discuss the ongoing gentrification & ableism on forming abolitionist politics and the importance of centering Joy & Practice in TJ.
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San Francisco Bay Area
Join Deana Lewis as she speaks with our guests Rachel Herzing, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, and Mimi Kim about the essential organizing they were a part of to end violence without police…
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33rd Ward Working Families @33rdwardworking.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Join Willow Schenwar and @haymarketbooks.org for “We Grow The World Together: Parenting towards abolition, a book club discussion”. This event on Sunday, June 1st goes from 12PM-1:30PM CST over zoom. RSVP and a zoom link will be sent out from the organizers.   RSVP: bit.ly/6-1wegrow
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StoryTelling and Organizing Project (STOP) @storiesforpower.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
🐚Ep 004: NYC 🎙️Meet our guest Paula X. Rojas: Chilean-born community organizer, licensed midwife and social justice trainer Paula X. Rojas grew up in Houston, followed in the footsteps of family members in Chile and began working on social justice issues affecting her local community as a teen.
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StoryTelling and Organizing Project (STOP) @storiesforpower.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
🐚Stories for Power Episode 004 🎙️Meet our guest kai barrow: kai barrow (she, her) is a visual artist who lives and works in New Orleans. Interested in the praxis of radical imagination, her sprawling paintings, installations and sculptures experiment with abolition as an artistic vernacular.
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StoryTelling and Organizing Project (STOP) @storiesforpower.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
🐚Stories for Power Episode 004 🎙️Meet our guest Ejeris Dixon: Ejeris Dixon (they/she) is an organizer and political strategist with 20 years of experience working in racial justice, LGBTQ, anti-violence, and economic justice movements. They are the Principal of Ejerie Labs.
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Jonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
I really love all the episodes of the new @storiesforpower.bsky.social podcast. I’ve tried to learn the lineages of abolition for several years, both because it’s fascinating and to situate what my organizing fits into, but I’ve learned so much from each of these episodes.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Che Johnson-Long: “Part of my work as a community safety and security practitioner is about offering tools for people to feel and move through fear so that we can continue to keep more of us in this fight." I was really grateful for this convo. truthout.org/audio/we-liv...
“Everyone needs to be in a group right now. Everyone. I don’t care if it’s a local mutual aid group, if it’s a base building organization, if it’s national, if it’s your neighbors on your block, but we all need to be in a group. And if you can’t find the group that’s right for you, then start a group, because that’s what allows for us to coordinate with each other better and to be able to consolidate power.” - Che Johnson-Long
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
This week's episode of Movement Memos is for activists and organizers who need to think about safety and security planning during these times (and that's all of us). I am grateful to Che Johnson-Long for this thoughtful, caring, and practical conversation. Audio + transcript:
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We Live in Fearful Times. Our Safety Comes Through Preparing Together.
“Now is the time to be bold and audacious,” says community safety organizer Che Johnson-Long.
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StoryTelling and Organizing Project (STOP) @storiesforpower.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Ep004: From Harm-Free Zones in Durham to New York City, tune in to hear how abolitionist organizers created neighborhood based response teams. In this episode abolitionist feminists kai barrow, Paula Rojas, & Ejeris Dixon talk about organizing in New York City in the late 90’s and early 2000’s.
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New York City
Host Deana Lewis speaks with abolitionist feminists kai lumumba barrow, Paula X. Rojas, and Ejeris Dixon about organizing in New York City during the late 90’s and early to mid 2000’s.
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John Breen @breen.tech · 30/04/2025
Free Mumia
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StoryTelling and Organizing Project (STOP) @storiesforpower.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Episode 003 was based in Durham, NC! Are you ready to find out where tomorrow’s episode is based out of? 🎙️
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StoryTelling and Organizing Project (STOP) @storiesforpower.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
🐚 Stories for Power Ep 003 🎙️Meet our guest Nia Wilson: Nia is the daughter of Ronald and Elmira and the mother of Heather and Paul. Raised on Connecticut concrete and sand, Black soul and Campbell's pork and beans, Nia is a gifted healer, story weaver and cultural alchemist.
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StoryTelling and Organizing Project (STOP) @storiesforpower.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
🐚Stories for Power Episode 003 🎙️Meet our guest Alexis Pauline Gumbs: Alexis Pauline Gumbs is the author of several books, including Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde, Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals, Dub: Finding Ceremony…
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StoryTelling and Organizing Project (STOP) @storiesforpower.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
🐚Stories for Power Ep 003 🎙️Meet our guest Mya Hunter: Born under the Aquarius sun sign, Mya is a fourth generation Durhamite, a daughter, sister, friend, performance artist, and documentarian. She has a deep sense of love and duty to her Hometown.
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